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people-watching in Walmart
Dec. 1st, 2008 05:04 pmSo I live in the Holy See of Walmart, which means there's like, one on every corner. Hence the observations:
Friday night: Family date night! For all those couples with upper elementary school children and who can't get a babysitter--there's always Walmart! The air is slightly festive with that get-out-of-the-house feeling. Junior snuck an extra case of ice cream in the cart? Go ahead and leave it--it's Friday! Also to be seen--college students grabbing a little something for a party.
Saturday afternoon in November in Arkansas: Hunting day. I've never seen so many people in hunters' camo in my life. Children are having tantrums in the carts, little old ladies are beating their way through to get weekend provisions, but what's most obvious is trigger-happy folks buying guns in the middle of a department store. Maybe I've been in Europe too long, but does it bother anyone else that you can go to a family department store and buy a weapon designed to kill someone? The other thing you can see: every hairstyle of the past 50 years, frozen in time.
Weekday in December: a lot of glassy-eyed people buying corn syrup products (whether they knew it or not), and a woman who looked exactly like a Pekinese. Have you ever noticed that some people look rather like specific animals?
(Obviously I had big plans for today, but they have been foiled.)
Friday night: Family date night! For all those couples with upper elementary school children and who can't get a babysitter--there's always Walmart! The air is slightly festive with that get-out-of-the-house feeling. Junior snuck an extra case of ice cream in the cart? Go ahead and leave it--it's Friday! Also to be seen--college students grabbing a little something for a party.
Saturday afternoon in November in Arkansas: Hunting day. I've never seen so many people in hunters' camo in my life. Children are having tantrums in the carts, little old ladies are beating their way through to get weekend provisions, but what's most obvious is trigger-happy folks buying guns in the middle of a department store. Maybe I've been in Europe too long, but does it bother anyone else that you can go to a family department store and buy a weapon designed to kill someone? The other thing you can see: every hairstyle of the past 50 years, frozen in time.
Weekday in December: a lot of glassy-eyed people buying corn syrup products (whether they knew it or not), and a woman who looked exactly like a Pekinese. Have you ever noticed that some people look rather like specific animals?
(Obviously I had big plans for today, but they have been foiled.)
